Trump 101: How not to President (TrumpThread #101)

[TheNorthWestPawsage]

Two images. Same day.
161 days to November 3rd.

Thanks to BruceAnd Nosh for thread title.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3877401-Trump-100-Thread-and-Were-Way-Down-the-Rabbit-Hole?pg=1

[cozietoesie]

[Lweji]

The WH has a knack for numbers and reality. (See graph)

Meanwhile, shame that Trump interrupted his golfing to watch the postponed launch.

[cozietoesie]

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[TheNorthWestPawsage]

Hypocrisy.

SYNONYMS. sanctimonious, pious, pietistic, self-righteous, holier-than-thou, superior, insincere, specious, feigned, pretended, hollow, false. deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, untruthful, lying, dissembling, duplicitous, two-faced, Janus-faced, double-dealing, untrustworthy.

Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has voted by mail 11 times in 10 years
The Tampa native has said it shouldn’t be available to everyone.
www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/05/27/trump-press-secretary-kayleigh-mcenany-has-voted-by-mail-11-times-in-10-years/

For a week, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has defended President Donald Trump’s assault on vote-by-mail, insisting, like her boss, that it invites election fraud.

But, also like her boss, McEnany has taken advantage of its convenience time and time again.

In fact, the Tampa native has voted by mail in every Florida election she has participated in since 2010, according to a Tampa Bay Times review of her voting history. Most recently, she voted by mail in the state’s March 2020 presidential primary, just as Trump did after he made Florida his new permanent home.

[TheSparklyPussycat]

@Lweji

The WH has a knack for numbers and reality. (See graph)

Meanwhile, shame that Trump interrupted his golfing to watch the postponed launch.

Do you have a link for Trump's launch watching?

[TheSparklyPussycat]

By the by, dcanoes anybody know if I can edit a quote before posting (eg to not quote the first sentence of your post)?

[TheSparklyPussycat]

*does

[lionheart]

I don't know.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/27/honest-elections-project-conservative-voting-restrictions

[lionheart]

I don't even know how you got the little pastel box.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-twitter-executive-order-social-media-fact-check-a9535866.html

[BruceAndNosh]

I don't think you can edit the quote. Sometimes I just want to quite one sentence of a long quite but I couldn't see how to cut it down

[BruceAndNosh]

Trump decides the best way of dealing with Twitter "stifling free speech" is to try to stop free speech on Twitter
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52815872

[Lweji]

Do you have a link for Trump's launch watching?

Sorry, no. Air Force One was seen landing in Houston a couple of hours before it was due to launch, which I was following live. #geek
But letmegooglethat.com/?q=Trump+watch+launch

[Lweji]

[quote BruceAndNosh]Trump decides the best way of dealing with Twitter "stifling free speech" is to try to stop free speech on Twitter
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52815872[/quote]
He may want some tips from China.

He must be having a very serious internal conflict. He needs social media, but doesn't like that they're starting to rein him in and that they refused to allow him to block users.

Let's see how far an executive order can go.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/27/trump-twitter-social-media-threat-conservatives

[TheSparklyPussycat]

Details re launch viewing were on the Guardian - so easy to find

I too am a geek, though didnt realise the launch was happening. So hopefully can see it on Saturday. Best way to do this?

DB saw a launch when he was on holiday in the USA. I was, and remain, very jealous.

[AskingQuestionsAllTheTime]

Oh, wonderful picture of the sulky toddler: someone didn't let him play with his new toy:

www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-live-trump-delivers-remarks-after-space-x-launch

[Lweji]

I watched the launch via YouTube. It will be available through the NASA site I believe.

[TheNorthWestPawsage]

Too bad he can't be blasted into space on Saturday. He could be "added" to the lovely sphere of feces that envelopes the Avenue 5 spaceship...
screenrant.com/avenue-5-science-hbo-show-space-true-accurate/amp/

Fox's Napolitano to Trump: First Amendment 'does not regulate Twitter'
thehill.com/homenews/media/499745-foxs-napolitano-to-trump-first-amendment-does-not-regulate-twitter

Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano said Wednesday that President Trump faces an uphill battle with his threat to regulate social media platforms like Twitter.

"The First Amendment, which guarantees the freedom of speech and of the press since it only regulates the government, does not regulate Twitter," the former New Jersey Superior Court judge said on "America's Newsroom."

"Twitter can take down, modify or correct any user it wants, including the president of the United States," Napolitano added.

His comments come a day after Trump accused Twitter of "stifling" free speech after the site fact checked one of his tweets about voting by mail, a first for the company. The following day he threatened to "strongly regulate, or close them down," referring to social media platforms.

"Under a Supreme Court opinion that the president likes, called Citizens United, Twitter has freedom of speech just like you and I and the president himself," Napolitano said Wednesday. "The president can say what he wants about Twitter and they can say what they want about him."

But Napolitano added that Twitter has put itself in a precarious position by fact-checking Trump.

"Twitter will lose a lot of credibility and make itself a target if they only fact-checked President Trump and not Joe Biden and not other leading nationally known political figures," Napolitano said.

He added that Trump was right about one thing with his criticisms of Twitter.

"The president is right about the bias in social media, and the president is also understandably not happy about his being fact-checked," Napolitano said.

Donald Trump's move against Twitter factchecking could backfire
www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/28/donald-trump-move-against-twitter-factchecking-could-backfire?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[AcrossthePond55]

"Twitter will lose a lot of credibility and make itself a target if they only fact-checked President Trump and not Joe Biden and not other leading nationally known political figures," Napolitano said

Well, I agree with this. Fair is fair after all. And if Biden said anything false it should be fact-checked. Wait...maybe they should fact check everything each candidate says! Scrotus would be fact checked with links saying 'this is bullshit', Biden would be fact checked with links saying 'this is true'.

[lionheart]

What he is doing to that family is vile.

[lionheart]

Armenia of all places.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/28/us-funding-website-spreading-covid-19-disinformation

[AskingQuestionsAllTheTime]

Lweji
I watched the launch via YouTube. It will be available through the NASA site I believe.
The one I was talking about, which Trump was unable to watch and boast about on Wednesday at Cape Canaveral, didn't happen; it has been postponed until Saturday.

[Lweji]

I know.
Should have said the preparations for the launch.

[AskingQuestionsAllTheTime]

Phew! Thought I was going mad...

They were worried about it potentially being struck by lightning; pity the lightning didn't find another target when it was robbed of that one.

[Lweji]

😈

[Lweji]

On a side note, this wasn't a good week for rocket launches.

www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/26/richard-branson-virgin-orbit-rocket-test-launch-fails